Wise Finish

I have used eBay for years to save a great deal of money on products.  I continue to do so because for many products, especially computer/cell phone parts and accessories, eBay often saves me a great deal of money.

I recently discovered a way to save even more money when shopping on eBay.  No coupon codes are required, and you can get anywhere from 6%+ cash back on products you purchase on eBay.

How does this work?  What you do is “stack” rebates to get substantial cash back from every eBay purchase you make.

Here’s where the rebates come from: Read the rest of this entry »

The Super Bowl is finished, the W-2′s and 1099′s have come in the mail.  Time to file my federal taxes for 2009.  Since my experience using Turbo Tax for the last several years has been a good one, I again chose it for 2009.  This year I chose TurboTax Deluxe Federal + State 2009 + efile to prepare my federal & state taxes.

Here’s my experiences and observations this year, broken down by the Federal and State returns (thankfully I did not have to file any city returns this year) Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been looking for a used car recently.  I have discovered that there are dozens, if not hundreds of sites with used car listings on.  However, very few of them I encountered had something that I really desired: An RSS feed so that I could receive updates in Google Reader.  If you haven’t discovered the beauty of RSS yet, I highly encourage you to start by signing up for Google Reader and experiment with these or many other sites that have RSS feeds.

Here are the sites I discovered that have RSS feeds and a little note about each.  Hopefully you will find this useful as you look for a new or used car: Read the rest of this entry »

Not only can OpenDNS speed up your surfing for free, but it can also protect your computer, your kids and yourself from malicious & obscene websites for free.  OpenDNS provides an anti-phishing and filtering features that can be setup to keep selected areas of content from being accessible on your computer.  This can protect you and your kids from the dangers of obscene content such as violence, pornography, sexuality or other tasteless content.  It can also protect your computer by not allowing it to access phishing, advertising, spyware and virus-laden websites.  Read the rest of this entry »

Does your Internet connection seem slow?  Do web pages load slowly even though you have a broadband connection?  Speeding up your domain name service (DNS) with OpenDNS may help!   When I first implemented OpenDNS, I definitely noticed that my surfing was “snappier”. Read the rest of this entry »